Bar and Grill 4: The Conversation Pit
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^ Yes, I just saw the AL thread.
Thanks for making it, OZ - it means alot to me. Probably more than you realize.
If you could say a little prayer in Church today or something, I'd really appreciate it. Maybe God will listen to *you*.
Anyway, thanks again. Thanks very much.
Thanks for making it, OZ - it means alot to me. Probably more than you realize.
If you could say a little prayer in Church today or something, I'd really appreciate it. Maybe God will listen to *you*.
Anyway, thanks again. Thanks very much.
^ Thanks very much. 
Never have I been so glad to see a weekend actually end.
Never have I been so glad to see a weekend actually end.
What happened?
^ I don't want to go into it now as it will only make me depressed all over again. But it was nothing really new - just the same ghastly realities as usual. It's just that I have more difficulty ignoring them on birthdays and holidays.
Ahhh. Hope you feel better, PK. Oh hell, you'll always be Vash. 
Sorry for the double post. I have been up for ... 21 hours now. I really should go to sleep, but dammit, i wanna see if i can make 24 straight hours.
^ My question too. I was up once for 38 hours straight (traveling from Siem Reap, Cambodia to Atlanta), and when I finally got into a bed, I slept for 24 hour straight, getting up only to go to the bathroom.
I have never been so exhausted in all my life. It hurts just thinking about it.
I have never been so exhausted in all my life. It hurts just thinking about it.
I feel like I've been up for 24 hours getting all this work done moving back home. It was a hectic couple of days, and today is just taking it easy.
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Lord Garth
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Beating the night is fun, sort of, and I'm unintentionally doing it right now (two big Friday and Saturday nights back to back and the unwinding afterwards), but don't get too carried away...
When I was your age, going to college full-time and working over-time including the graveyard shift, I was up for ~72 hours.
I fell asleep behind the wheel on the way home, crashed deep into the woods, with a tree branch running through the car. Another few feet over and I would've been dead. I quit the job a few weeks later.
Sorry to sound like a downer, but take my word for it and don't try to beat any more than one night if you break that mark.
When I was your age, going to college full-time and working over-time including the graveyard shift, I was up for ~72 hours.
I fell asleep behind the wheel on the way home, crashed deep into the woods, with a tree branch running through the car. Another few feet over and I would've been dead. I quit the job a few weeks later.
Sorry to sound like a downer, but take my word for it and don't try to beat any more than one night if you break that mark.
Why not? I once went around 40+ hours without sleep. I was exhausted and running on adrenaline, but i made it. Oh, and i went to bed shortly after i made that post, so i didn't make it to 24 hours.
Egads!!!
This sounds terrifying. Were you here then?
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Lord Garth
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Yeah. This was five years ago, not only was I here, I'd been a moderator for six months.
It was so obvious my car was totalled but I was hoping I'd be able to repair it then the claims adjuster said it would cost more than the car was worth so I bought a new one.
I posted about the incident in the TOS Forum, cloaking it a bit, mentioning the real reason the Enterprise was going to be decommissioned in TSFS was because of their version of claims adjusters, then mentioned what happened to me.
My boss, not truly understanding what I went through, said afterwards that I'd only have to work one of the third shifts I'd been scheduled for instead of two. This was at a 24-hour Sunoco A-Plus. "I have a business to run". Yeah, that's nice... I have my life to run.
It was also the same store where the manager who would steal money from my register and other workers' and claim we were all short, and whited out my hours and changed them after I already checked my schedule and then claimed I didn't report to work when I was supposed to. And he went from a cook in a fish store to working in a gas station because he "wanted to try something different". There was definitely something up with him, a person doesn't just that type of switch in middle-age.
Worst job I ever had. Lots of stories.
BigFoot said:
^ I just don't see the point of going without sleep for so long without a good reason, that's all.
There doesn't ahve to be a good reason to do anything. Like me staying up for ... 22 hours now. And ... i'm not all that tired either. I'm actually watching the pilot to The Wonder Years ... after i saw some Boy Meets World and the finale made me cry.
I love you Mr. Feeny!!!
You know...the convenience store job that sucked *definitely* sounds familiar.
I was here 5 years ago (in fact, it's coming up on 6 years), but I wasn't posting in TOS then. I wonder if I read about this a few years later in the BR or something?
I don't know. But I do remember you having a job like this that totally sucked.
Anyway, I'm certainly glad you were okay.
And yeah...a middle aged man who is working jobs like that...well....yeah. Clearly somethin' not quite right there.
